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GIPSON v. GIPSON

No. 79A02-9310-CV-569.

629 N.E.2d 952 (1994)

Dale Allen GIPSON, Appellant-Respondent, v. Brenda Kay GIPSON, Appellee-Petitioner.

Court of Appeals of Indiana, First District.

March 8, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Phillip R. Smith, Helmerick, Smith & Fountain, Lafayette, for appellant-respondent.

Ann G. Davis, Holder and Davis, Lafayette, for appellee-petitioner.

BAKER, Judge.

Public policy generally disfavors a child support order against a person who is not the child's parent. Nonetheless, a man should not be relieved from his child support obligations where he voluntarily assumes the legal duties of a father, acknowledges a child to be his own with full knowledge that he is not the biological father, and does not timely appeal a dissolution decree finding his paternity.

FACTS

In late 1977, Dale...

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